Gray Tree Frog
(Hyla versicolor) June 29, 2016
This little fellow was photographed sitting on the side of my swimming pool in Metro-west Boston. I often have six or more gray tree frogs singing around this ole watering hole at night. A small arboreal frog, native to much of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, this species has a strong voice and loves to participate in neighborhood late night croak-offs. I never get annoyed with them, and miss the chorus when they go quiet. To counter this, I've developed a pretty good mimic of their croak and use it to egg them back into song. They seem to respond positively to my participation because they always start singing again. Or, . . . perhaps they are just complaining and asking me to be quiet so that they can go to sleep or get back to what ever it is they were up to?
